展品專文
Our pair of vases, characterised by their slender, rectilinear uprights, can be attributed to the Werner und Mieth workshop, founded in Berlin in 1792 by the bronzemakers Christian Gottlieb Werner (1756-1831), Gottfried Meth (1765-1834) and Friedrich Luckau the younger, which specialised in the creation of gilded bronze objects, particularly chandeliers.
Granted a royal privilege in 1794, he created chandeliers for the Hohenzollern palaces, including Sans-Souci Palace in Potsdam, Monbijou Palace in Berlin and the Japanese Palace in Dresden. In 1797, the studio delivered twelve chandeliers to King Frederick II for his Charlottenburg Palace.
The workshop enjoyed growing success in the first half of the 19th century, exporting its creations to every European capital, including Paris, London, Stockholm and Copenhagen. After a brief slowdown in production due to the Napoleonic wars, the company resumed its activity, in association with talented artists such as the architects Hans Christian Genelli and Karl Friedrich Schinkel, under the name Werner und Neffen.
The Metropolitan Museum in New York holds a number of works made by this manufacturer, which have a fairly minimalist neoclassical aesthetic, comparable to that of our vases: a potpourri vase modelled by Schinkel and a pedestal table, both made around 1810.
Granted a royal privilege in 1794, he created chandeliers for the Hohenzollern palaces, including Sans-Souci Palace in Potsdam, Monbijou Palace in Berlin and the Japanese Palace in Dresden. In 1797, the studio delivered twelve chandeliers to King Frederick II for his Charlottenburg Palace.
The workshop enjoyed growing success in the first half of the 19th century, exporting its creations to every European capital, including Paris, London, Stockholm and Copenhagen. After a brief slowdown in production due to the Napoleonic wars, the company resumed its activity, in association with talented artists such as the architects Hans Christian Genelli and Karl Friedrich Schinkel, under the name Werner und Neffen.
The Metropolitan Museum in New York holds a number of works made by this manufacturer, which have a fairly minimalist neoclassical aesthetic, comparable to that of our vases: a potpourri vase modelled by Schinkel and a pedestal table, both made around 1810.